And then keep the rectangle selected, click Format > Send Backward > Send Behind Text, see screenshot:Ĥ. Then drag the mouse to draw a rectangle which as large as the Word page, and then, in the Format tab, choose one color that you want to apply for the page under the Shape Fill drop down, see screenshot:ģ. Go the page of the document that you want to change its page color, and then click Insert > Shapes > Rectangle, see screenshot:Ģ. May be, there is no direct way to change one page’s color to differ with the whole document, but, you can use the following workaround to finish it.
However, if you want to change one page color with another color, this article, I will talk about how to deal with it in Word file.Ĭhange background color of one page in a Word document Normally, when you apply the Page Color feature to insert page color to a Word document, all the pages of the document will be applied the same color. Trademarks used in our website are registered trademarks of respective companies and neither PortSAP Consulting nor the author of this Blog is associated affiliated with these companies.How to change background page color of one page in a Word document?
To find out more about Ray Hornbrook please check out his LinkedIn profile by clicking HERE.Įnd of document – Neither PortSAP Consulting nor the author of this Blog is associated with SAP AG or with any of its subsidiary or alliance company. As well as helping bridge gaps in communication between the IT and Business team members. The business background helps him better communicate with the business members of the team. Having a background as an SAP business end user has helped Ray greatly in his consulting career. Since Ray has worked both sides of SAP, business end user and IT professional, he is able to communicate effectively with both IT and Business team members. Ray started his career in SAP as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for a SAP implementation in 1998 and is now a Senior Level SAP Consultant. Whether on your desktop or online, you can keep your document as a single page. The author, Ray Hornbrook, has over 18 years of SAP functional and technical experience. Shrinking your text to fit on one page is easy to do with Word’s features.
If you have question on this or any other PortSAP Consulting blog please feel free to contact us at Or if you are looking for Top Quality SAP Consultants please feel free to contact us. The above steps can be created as often as needed within a document. Set Page to Portrait: Menu – PAGE LAYOUT > Orientation > Portrait (see step 4 screen shot)Īgain, very important that you use “Next Page” to create the page break.Go to bottom of last page you want to be landscape and create “Next Page” break (step 2 above).Set Page to Landscape: Menu – PAGE LAYOUT > Orientation > Landscape.Go to page you want to change to Landscape.Using “Next Page” to create the page break is crucial to ensuring this “tip” works as expected. Menu – PAGE LAYOUT > Breaks > Next Page.Go to the bottom of the last portrait page before the page you want to be landscape.Screen shot of portrait document with a landscape page in the middle But with that said it night quite as simple as clicking on the page and choosing landscape. But for this trick all you need to do is follow the below steps and everything should work as expected. In a lot of my blogs I mention that you need to have, “strong knowledge of SAP” or “Good understanding of Excel”. But how can you track a piece of a document That sounds like a lot of hard work. The answers to these questions will give you an idea regarding the changes you need to make in your one-pager. When the matrix just won’t fit in Portrait view you can change one (or more) pages of the portrait document to landscape view and then change the document back to portrait for the rest of the document. The only way to make your One Pager the best it could be is by evaluating whether people are reading it, how much they are reading it, and whether they are interacting with it or not. But there are times with no matter how much you tweak the matrix just won’t fit in Portrait view. If the matrix is close to fitting I will tweak the column widths until it fits. If for no other reason than it just seems weird. Now no one want to look at a 25 page word document in landscape. More than once when creating a Word document I’ve went to insert a matrix copied from Excel only to discover it was too wide for Portrait view in Word.
And for a project, big or small, to be successful all the documentation has to be completed. I realize this is the nature of the beast. I don’t know about you but I sometimes feel I spend more time working in Microsoft products like Word, Excel and Outlook than I do in SAP.